The Kohelet Policy Forum strives to secure Israel's future as the nation-state of the Jewish people, to strengthen representative democracy, and to broaden individual liberty and free-market principles in Israel.

Two very different organizations took action last week against Jews owning property in the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority sentenced two Palestinians to 15 years hard labor for selling land to Jews. And Airbnb, the tech behemoth and online marketplace for lodging, announced it would no longer serve Jewish communities in the West Bank....

The concept of “basic income” has been garnering a lot of attention in recent years, due to increasing concerns regarding inequality, economic growth, technological unemployment and the bureaucratic burden of the current welfare systems throughout the world.

If business activity that “facilitates” or “profits” from settlement activity raises human rights issues, then the Commission’s current research program is unjustifiably narrow in its scope. The UNHRC’s Israel database is not merely an example of double standards—of unevenly enforcing or applying existing rules. Rather, it is an unjustified and illegitimate invention of entirely...

The likely passage of the nation-state bill is the most important Zionist development to be inserted into Israel's lawbooks since the Law of Return was passed in 1950. The new bill, which makes the Jewish character of the state a national value that can be enforced in various ways, restores the old and proper...

The basic Zionist values articulated by this law have been supported by every government since the creation of the State of Israel. Israel as the home of Jewish self-determination; the importance of Jewish settlement throughout the land – these are the values of Ben-Gurion, who called for the settlement...

U.S. law prohibits funding UN “affiliated organizations” that accept the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a member state. In the past two years, the PA has been accepted into four such organizations, two of them in the past months. Yet thus far, none of these organizations have had their funding...

It was Justice Aharon Barak who came up with the creative solution to let the law against the import of non-kosher meat pass. Despite the fact he himself deemed the law unconstitutional, the Knesset, he suggested, should amend the basic law on freedom of occupation by adding an...

A new study documents the widespread role of some of the world's largest companies in supporting settlement enterprises in the occupied territories. It is an essential companion to the UN human rights council's efforts to seek accountability for such activities.